Wilde, verified
"Youth is the only thing worth having."
More from The Picture of Dorian Gray
Every quote →"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them."
"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
Lord Henry Wotton
"The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young."
Lord Henry Wotton
"All art is quite useless."
The Preface
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
The Preface
"It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
Lord Henry Wotton